An Ant Colony Optimization Based Feature Selection for Web Page Classification

Table 11

Comparison of the proposed method with well-known feature selection methods.

Datasets	No. of selected features
	10			100			500
	IG	Chi	ACO	IG	Chi	ACO	IG	Chi	ACO
Faculty	0.89	0.93	0.96	0.90	0.91	0.92	0.90	0.90	0.35
Course	0.91	0.88	0.96	0.36	0.36	0.90	0.90	0.91	0.90
Student	0.80	0.79	0.94	0.42	0.42	0.82	0.34	0.34	0.35
Project	0.83	0.90	0.95	0.39	0.39	0.92	0.35	0.35	0.91
Conference	0.93	0.57	0.92	0.94	0.94	0.94	0.93	0.93	0.93